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Gavin Lambert reviews Mike Hodges' career, and finds that after years in the kind of exile his characters experience, the director has come in from the cold with Croupier and now I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

... you're Malcolm McDowell, and you had a dazzling debut in films 30-odd years ago, you've been working ever since (albeit often in some pretty ropey movies), you're living amid your own citrus groves in California, you've an established happy marriage, a new baby and, at last, two or three good roles are cropping up? Would you count yourself a lucky man? Suzie Mackenzie finds out

A luminous screen presence, she specialised in sassy, stubborn heroines from Ice Cold in Alex to Victim. And now, talking about her latest role in Mike Hodges's new film, Sylvia Syms is happy to be interviewed in her dressing gown